I've had chance to play with the quills and brushes I have made lately on a page from my Beowulf project. Both the quills and the brushes work ok. I need to keep practicing at making them. I can currently cut a quill small enough to do the lettering I want, but I'm not getting the hair lines and sharp corners that I get with the metal nibs.I think some of the issue is with the curing of the quills. I'll do more cleaning of the barrels before I do the curing and see if that helps. The latest Minever brush works really well compared to the badger brushes I've made so far. The hogs hair also works pretty good as long as the hairs stay together. I'm planning on attempting to make a few more badger and hogs hair brushes and I'll need to order some more minever before I can make more of those.
The page I'm working on for my Beowulf project is coming along nicely. I'm using my mixed pigments, quill pens, handmade brushes, Arches Hot press Watercolor paper, and sumi ink. Not all the materials are period in nature yet, but it's getting much closer and I can gauge how the quills and brushes preform as I'm use to using modern versions of the tools with the mixed pigments on the Arches paper.
Next special project I think will be making ink. I have the materials to make a batch of oak gall ink, just need to plan the day to do it.
Isaac
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